Posted in Cooking Tips on Mar 31st, 2010
I spent years struggling with my chicken cooking abilities, sometimes I got lucky and ended up with juicy and delicious chicken, other days it was a much tougher (pun intended) affair. Do you say pun intended when it was intended or only when it was not intended? Either way, chicken is cheap and can be [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 31st, 2010
Egg White Omelette with Sauteed Daylilies, Corn, and Onions. Foraged Green Goddess Dressing with some Ancho Chili  Barbeque Sauce
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 30th, 2010
There are few things more delicious than taking a basic homemade or store bought pizza dough and loading it with everything you could possibly imagine. It is like a sandwich but better because you get to see everything out in the open and generally get to eat more. You can even put different ingredients in [...]
Posted in New Food Experiences on Mar 30th, 2010
This corn side dish was made with onions, garlic, and fresh picked ingredients from my foraging expedition this past weekend. I simply sauteed some daylilies I had snagged in some olive oil and garlic and then threw in the corn. The flavor popped in an unexpected way, it was literally the freshest thing that I [...]
Posted in New Creations, Recipe on Mar 29th, 2010
Black Bean and Cheese Spring Rolls with Cilantro and Fried Cheese. Served with a Sweet Chili Sauce. Who F*&KED What? Was probably the first thing that I thought of when I heard this word for the first time. I believe it was during an episode of The Next Iron Chef Season 1 where the contestants [...]
Posted in New Food Experiences on Mar 29th, 2010
After a rather successful birthday party I catered for a roommate this weekend, upon waking up early saturday morning with an almost hangover, I found myself debating my choice to sign up for the foraging walk in Prospect Park that day at 11:45am. I had never been to that particular park before, let alone gone [...]
Posted in New Creations on Mar 26th, 2010
Mango Kugel with Homemade Cinnamon Toast Crunch Ice Cream, Rum Glazed Bananas and Caramel Sauce in an Avocado Bowl I should probably stop using the word homemade so often and instead start saying store bought on the few occasions where I don’t make something from scratch. So if you stop seeing homemade in front of [...]
Posted in Guest Chef on Mar 26th, 2010
Red Curry Mussels As much as I enjoy cooking for myself and occasionally getting lucky and having someone take me out to a nice restaurant to try something new, it is always nice when I get a little break from eating my own food to try out some of my friends favorite dishes. My buddy [...]
Posted in New Creations, Uncategorized on Mar 25th, 2010
One of the benefits to cooking a lot of food is not only the leftovers themselves but the various ways you can use them to create new things that you would otherwise never have thought to put together. After my polenta tamale experiment yesterday I still had a few cups of polenta left along with [...]
Posted in New Creations, Recipe on Mar 24th, 2010
According to the forecast it looks like some more warm sun is due out tomorrow. Personally I don’t mind the rain, it keeps things fresh, and, when you think about it, keeps us alive. For this rainy day I spent the bulk of it working on some new tunes but ever since the corn husks [...]
